The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-28

employees voluntarily connecting themselves
with any labor organization they may see fit 20
Join, it will protect them at all
hazards and at any cost from being forced
into any union where their own
wish would be to remain Free and any employe
OF tbs company or OF the coal and iron COM
pany, guilty of using any undue or improper
influence upon any of our men to force them 10
join any society against their free will, will
upon proof furnished us, be instantly dismissed
from our service and never allowed
to return to it, and any EN-.
ploye furnishing such information will
be fully protected from any harm by reason
thereof. Please give this notice 10 the general
Superintendent, with orders that It be repeated
10 the heads of every department of the rail
road and coal and iron company. Very respect
fully, AUSTIN CoRDIN, President.
G. DEB. kEIM,
s. A. CALDWELL,
AUSTIN CoRBIN Receivers.
AN UNPLEASANT SENTIMENT.
A special from Reading says: The strike
has developed the exi stence of an unpleasant
sentiment between the Knights of Labor
and the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gneers The latter, it is reliably stated,
offered to furnish all the men that might be
needed TO take out trains. There are
l75 engineers in this city and vi
cinitv, all brotherhood men, who were
discharged by tho former President Of the
Reading railroad, Franklin B. Gowan.
Their places were taken by non-union men,
who now belong to the Knights of Labor.
The latter were then known as ''scabs," and
for long time there was bitter feeling in
the community against them, especially as
the riots during the strike of 1877,
in this city, resulted in an at
tack by the Fourth Regiment, N. G.
p, in which about a dozen mon were
killed and about seventy-fve or eighty
wounded. The families which suffered and
their sympathizers have never forgiven the
men who took the place of the brotherhood
engineers. All the engineers employed on
the Reading railroad prior to the trouble of
1877 are being heard from. They desired to
return to their first love-" and were anx-
ious for sweet revenge.
LACK OF sPoNTANEITY.
There was a lack of spontaniety in the
return to work of the Reading Railroad
Company's employees at the wharves at
Port Richmond this morning. This was
not due to an unwillingness ON the part of
the men, but delay in the circulation of the
general order to return, coupled with the
fact that the disaffected were rather late in
putting in an appearance at their usual
points of rendezvous However sufficient
men responded at an early hour TO handle
what little coal there was on the tracks and
more too, for many had to be put to work
at odd jobs until some of the side tracked
fuel came down the road. Supt Keim was
at his post of duty at an early hour He
received the men pleasantly as they put in
an appearance. As general rule the men
would express satisfaction at the happy
prospect of an amicable adjustment. A
few, however, after reaching the wharves
and finding that the non-union men who
had been employed in their absence were
there at work turned about and walked off.
HIS SERVICES NEEDED.
= One of the first men to greet Supt. Keim
this morning was Councilman join Kelly,
Chairman of the Arbitration Committee of
the Employees Convention, who occupies the
position of foreman of pier l9. He reported
early in order to explain to his men the
exact condition of affairs, as he feared
that in the presence of the non-union
men there would be hesItancy on their part
to resume work He was anxious that the
employees should be as prompt in obtaining
the order of resumption as they were that
of quitting work. His presence was headed,
for late in the morning an incident occurred
which came near causing all those at work
to leave the wharves. During the night
two Golfers, the Pottsville and Rattlesnake
steamed up TO their piers and their crews.
who are also members Of the River Front
Assembly of the Knights Of Labor were in
total ignorance of the esituation surrounding
bucIi WutIl butJ diOot III luc iiluS
learned the cause of the idleness in the
scenes that are won't to be so busy all hands,
fourteen in number, refused to obey orders
and were promptly discharged. This Incl
dent was misinterpreted by the Knights at
work and considerable explanation was re-
quired to straighten matters out In the
meantime the discharged crews will remain
idle.
INDIGNATION AMONG THE KNIGHTS.
The headquarters of the Executive Com
mittee Of toe Reading Railroad Employees
Convention presented scene of great ex-
citeplent this afternoon when the statement
of Manager Mcleod, emanating from Presi-
dent Corbln, was made known TO the mem
bers. No expressions were considered too
strong to characterize the document,
and messages were at once sent
off to the different assemblies to
convene at once. Said a prominent mem
Der: THE company has been trying for
some time to bring on a conflict with the
knights of Labor and they have done
it at last The strike is only preliminary
skirmish, and the company will find out
that it has made mistake in thinking the
knights are beaten"
A reporter interviewed several Of the
men as to their feelings in the matter, and
one and all agreed that they had been in
duced to resume work under false pretenses
in the matter of arbitration and the rein
statement OF the discharged bands.
READING GETS THE NEWS
READING, Pa, Dec. 27,-"The strike is
settled" These were the words which came
over the wires into the general Office Of the
Reading Railroad Company, in this city, at
o'clock this morning, and there was great
rejoicing all along the company's lines in
consequence. 1t is believed that the action
of the Convention of Employees in this city
yesterday in declaring positively that they
would not go on a strike had much to do
with bringing about the settlement. Before
daylight members of every Knight of
Labor Assembly in the Reading railroad
territory was notified 30 go to work, and
there was an air OF activity about the entire
railroad which has not been noticed for a
week. The Philadelphia and Reading head
quarters here presented an animated
scene. Hundreds of non.union men
we're on hand eagerly waiting 10 be
in case their services should be wanted.
Some had previously been employed on the
road, while others were inexperienced.
Among the number were men who belonged
to the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers
but who had lost their positions in the disas-
trous strike Of 1877, and who are at pres
ent engaged in other industries. They were
waiting summons, but their services were
not needed 1t was nearly noon when sew
eral scores Of engines were gotten out Of the
round houses at Pottsvills, Reading,
Pottstown and other places and sent
down the road to move the side
tracked trains to Port Richmond. The cars
between Reading and PHILADELPHIA were